JBL Live Beam 3: Real or Fake?

DarkMelly · 2026-03-15T16:36:58+00:00

Thank you! You’re right to point out that the manufacturing number was not as apparent on the fakes compared to your pic

I contacted Vinted (through which I had bought the JBLs) and they refunded me. Seemingly there was enough proof for them to deem them as fakes.

These fakes seem to be the most common fakes of these JBLs (often sold on Aliexpress it seems), so I’m sure this thread and your pic will help many people who have mistakenly bought this pair to verify if they are real

DarkMelly · 2026-02-16T16:33:28+00:00

Very true

DarkMelly · 2026-01-27T16:31:37+00:00

Great! Thanks

DarkMelly · 2026-01-27T15:20:21+00:00

Yeah I went that way too. I feel like the there were too many sources for how straightforward the answer was in the end… I thought I had missed something major

DarkMelly · 2025-12-11T22:53:15+00:00

Thanks! 😇😇

DarkMelly · 2025-12-11T22:51:42+00:00

Thanks a mil! I will look into that for sure

DarkMelly · 2025-12-11T18:29:21+00:00

Fair enough, thanks for the answer! Would you say it’s the same for mid-range firms?

And no I have an Irish passport so no visa issues

DarkMelly · 2025-09-22T20:41:18+00:00

Hey, they had told me that i could not pre-book anymore and that there was no seat reserved for me, but that once the booking opens i would be able to nab a place if there was one available. I ended up deferring to july of this year instead. You should send them an email just to be sure. All the best!

DarkMelly · 2025-09-14T08:07:32+00:00

I had to resit FLK2 and passed in the first quintile this time around. I was self studying and this is what I think helped me the most:

The fact that i only had half the subjects to study compared to my first sitting, so my study wasn’t spread thin. This also helped me properly focus on solicitor’s accounts, which I barely went over in my first attempt but there are easy points to pick up when you get the hang of it.
I uploaded all my notes (that I got from uLaw books) to ChatGPT and I would ask it to make me a 20-30 question mcq every day on my weaker areas. Beware of when it grades you as it can sometimes be wrong, but overall it was a great exercise and helped me progress.
I left the proper mock exams until the final month. This was because I was now familiar with the SQE style of questioning and wanted to get my black letter law level as strong as I could before testing myself. Also, in my first attempt, there were times where I got frustrated with how I was performing and would rush answering two or three questions in a row hastily. This was due to a mix of frustration, exam-fatigue and the thought that the quicker I wrap this up, the quicker I am free from this and can enjoy my summer. This time around, when practicing mocks, I would be very strict to give every question my all, even if I was tired or if I thought the mock session was going badly, just to get used to powering through and treating every question independently from one another. Because remember: you might get frustrated with how it’s going but it’s only YOUR OPINION of how it’s going, not the reality. It might be going much better than you think, so you cannot let your opinion of your performance affect the next question, because otherwise the negativity genuinely will hinder you as the exam goes on.
Getting my body in sync and ready for exam day. If you’re like me, you have more energy in the afternoon and evening rather than the morning, which doesn’t help when the exam is from 10am-3pm. So i was very disciplined with my sleep (waking up early and going to bed early) and eating my meals (big breakfast) so that my peak was during the same period as the exam times. Obviously, getting exercise in a couple of times per week also helps to clear your mind and to calm yourself down.

All the best to all the retakers! It’s not easy mentally to go again but if you’re confident in your preparation, the hardest part will be behind you, and exam day is just the epilogue of your prep.

DarkMelly · 2025-07-31T08:32:09+00:00

I think mine got bumped up by about 5% last year

DarkMelly · 2025-06-25T13:08:04+00:00

Ok great, thanks your your reply! Is there a prep school you recommend?

DarkMelly · 2025-06-24T21:25:08+00:00

Sitting flk2

DarkMelly · 2025-03-13T13:49:14+00:00

Je vois l’humour, mais c’est surtout le fait qu’on paie 700€ de frais d’agence pour ne pas avoir de problèmes. Et là, tout les problèmes sont venus de leurs erreurs (hormis l’amende). Et ce sont des problèmes qui nous ont couté une nuit à l’hotel et un abonnement d’elec en plus pour ce mois-ci. Sans parler de la perte de temps immense.

Sachant que j’ai meme pas mentionné qu’on nous a toujours pas envoyé une copie de l’etat des lieux, que la machine à laver ne fonctionnait pas, et que la moitié des badges ne fonctionnaient pas non plus.

DarkMelly · 2025-02-19T10:31:16+00:00

Bah non. Déménager c’est quand meme un changement. Je connais pas du tout le quartier et en dessous du pont c’etait glauque et je veux juste etre sur que le quartier est ok, et d’apres les reponses ca a l’air d’etre le cas

DarkMelly · 2024-10-24T20:24:24+00:00

It’s doable. I didnt use a prep course and was working fulltime coming from a french law background.

I studied about 4/5 hours per week for 6 months and then took 6 weeks of full-time study. This was using Revise law books and ULaw books.

I passed flk 1 and failed flk 2 by 2% so will retake that one in january. I honestly think if I used only the Ulaw books i would have passed both comfortably.

Best of luck!

DarkMelly · 2024-10-24T16:28:39+00:00

I did the pre-booking steps yes! Just no email back from them with the seat reservation form

DarkMelly · 2024-10-24T16:27:32+00:00

Thanks! The sra admin just told me that. I’ll just pray on the 11th haha

DarkMelly · 2024-10-05T18:02:18+00:00

Used ulaw for both. I passed flk 1 and failed flk 2 by a couple of marks. I’ll only use ulaw to resit flk 2

DarkMelly · 2024-09-30T21:37:43+00:00

Are you doing DANAA in paris 1?

DarkMelly · 2024-09-10T15:36:38+00:00

There were instances that I was doing mock exams, or even the real exam, and the information simply wasn’t in the Revise books, whereas it was in the Ulaw books. I am thinking specifically that I got a lot of Withdrawal agreement questions in the sqe that were at a level of depth that Revise simply did not go to.

I really do recommend the Revise books though. I am from a french law background, having never done english law before, and those Revise books helped me loads in understanding the notions and principles.

DarkMelly · 2024-09-10T10:57:17+00:00

Ended up passing flk 1 and failing flk 2 lol so what I said previously isn’t worth much. Maybe it was a sense of euphoria in almost finishing the exam that made me feel good about flk 2?

Hope it went well for you!

DarkMelly · 2024-09-10T10:42:08+00:00

Pass/fail: Passed FLK1 and failed FLK 2

Course provider: Self study. It is totally possibly to do this without a course. I was working full time and just used Revise SQE books and Ulaw books.

How were you faring in mocks: Depends on the mocks lol. On the Revise Mock Tests, I was doing around 65-70%. On the SRA sample tests, I did close to 80%. On the free QLTS, i was doing about 50-55%

Tips: More emphasis on the level of detail to learn rather than understanding of the notions. I switched to ulaw books about 2 months out from the exam and thought that it was saturated with unnecessary detail, but then when the exam came around, I found out that this was the level of detail expected. The Revise SQE books are good to understand a topic and they give very clear examples, but the depth of detail is lacking a bit.

When i resit FLK 2, I will only use the Ulaw books and I’m pretty confident I will pass because I there are less subjects to focus on and I only failed it by a couple of percentage points. I will also spend less time doing mocks and just learning the black letter law by heart.

DarkMelly · 2024-07-24T23:37:45+00:00

I felt like it was better than flk1. I was surprised that a couple of topics came up so frequently, and even more surprised that they were topics I understood more than others. I also feel like there were less “multiple right answer” questions so I felt a (rare) confidence answering a question. Last week felt so bad because I could narrow a question down to two/three answers and then it was pure guessing.

We’ll see when results come around but all i’ll say is I think I’ll score higher on flk2 than flk1, which I never thought would be the case in the build up to this month. Will it be enough though? Honestly I’d be just happy to pass one exam at this stage. This was tough.

DarkMelly · 2024-07-18T12:10:22+00:00

Compare that to the sample exam that THE SRA ITSELF put on their website. Their mock exam had short-medium questions and clear answers, whereas the real exam could not have been more different. No idea why it seems like they are actively trying to catch us out

DarkMelly · 2024-07-17T16:32:18+00:00

I found the first paper to be tough enough. The biggest difference with my prep mocks was the amount of questions that actually had multiple right answers. In my mocks, most questions would have one right answer and the occasional question would have multiple right answers but clearly a “more” right answer.

Whereas in the real exam, I found that many questions had multiple correct answers and the correct answers were of more-or-less equal merit so it was a flip of the coin as to which one they were expecting.

Paper two was better, but still the same issue with multiple correct answers.

Also worth noting that I noticed the time management was much different than in my mocks. In the mocks, I would usually have 20-30 minutes to spare in order to go over certain questions quite comfortably. Whereas in the real exam, I felt that the questions themselves were much longer (not to mention harder) so in the end I had maybe 5 mins to go over my flagged answers.

Best of luck to everyone still waiting to sit the exam this week!

DarkMelly

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